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Another common use for the Summit family is in a campus environment, as shown in
Figure 1-5
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Figure 1-5: Summit family used in a campus environment
The Summit1 switches located in each building form a meshed backbone, providing
load balancing and redundancy. In addition, the Summit2 Switch in Building 2 is
dual-homed to the Summit1 located in Building 1 and to the Summit1 located in
Building 2.
Intranet/Internet
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Workstations
PCs
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Meshed
backbone
Building 3
Building 2
Building 1
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